Any poultry farmer, whether a beginner or an experienced household owner who raises chickens, can face the problem of chicken disease. One of the signs of the development of serious diseases in feathered pets can be a cough. As a rule, it indicates infection of the bird with bronchitis. However, such a symptom can “talk” about other health problems in chickens.
Of course, at the first sign of a cough, sick individuals must begin to be treated. But first, you should understand and determine what caused the cough. This will allow you to quickly and effectively cope with the disease and save feathered pets. Otherwise, the treatment will be useless and can lead to the most disastrous consequences.
Not infrequently, the cause of coughing in chickens is the entry into the house of new individuals acquired in nurseries. This is due to the fact that “newcomers” are carriers of the infection against which they were vaccinated. It turns out that they themselves have acquired immunity, and domestic individuals are not adapted to such exposure.
One of the folk remedies for coughing in chickens is a nettle decoction. However, more and more often, poultry farmers opt for medicines purchased in pharmacies, for example, for an inhaler – Isatilon aerosol or any other.
Noticing that the bird is coughing, it must be immediately isolated from the rest of the livestock and begin to give drugs such as tetracycline, bicelin-3, furazalidon, or some other that the veterinarian will advise. Medicines are usually added to the drinking water of feathered pets or to feeders with food.
In some cases, it is necessary to use antibiotics to treat chickens. But this implies a refusal to eat eggs and meat from sick individuals for two or even more weeks. The treatment itself lasts about seven days. Although even after the recovery of feathered pets, it is not worth moving the rhinestone again to the main livestock. This may be unsafe and will lead to a new outbreak of diseases.
